Re: AW: Re: Copyright notices - update everything to 2006?

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Martin Tomes wrote:
>
>> Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
>>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>>> OK. I have started updating the copyright notices in my last commit. It's
>>> not a big deal, but we will forget it all the time.
>> Isn't this what the pre-commit hook is for?
>
> Possibly, but it would be annoying just for this minor thing. You update a
> header that gets used in many places, build and test. Then commit and find
> that you forgot that damn copyright year and have to rebuild again.

How about a post-commit hook which either e-mails an author when they
have forgotten or just keeps a list of committed files with incorrect
copyright. If you keep a file it's vi `cat filename` to update them all.

-- 
Martin Tomes
echo 'martin at tomes x org x uk'\
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